No,
it wasn't the banking scandal.. And it wasn't a mysteriously poor showing
of John McCain... It was a one-two punch in the stomach of the electorate
that reveals what our servants really think of us. For some, this is
not new, but for America - tens of millions, in fact - it was sudden,
frightening and even heart-breaking on some levels in 2008.

1)
2008 saw that one lurking American suspicion is in fact true: that we
are on our own. No matter what officials promise, no matter what individuals
may believe about the goodness of officials, we have always been on
our own and we always will be. For so many, this was stunning; for the
liberty purists, being on our own is liberty, and must be invoked.

2)
As if a series of disasters and a poorly performing disaster management
weren't enough, more and more scandal shows that no one is on our side.
What hurt thousands of good Americans was the unmistakable sense of
abandonment, with a heavy accent of disrespect and defiance (read Looting).

America
has been looted for generations. It's almost as if she has been built
up merely to transfer all wealth. Well?

We
may be able to put a stop to transferring our wealth by putting our
foot down, but how to you put your foot down in refusing our servants'
assumption of powers not granted? This was not only the warning of the
Liberty Nuts I often write about, it is the fear of free peoples everywhere.

I
have said that America does not have Leaders, we have Executives. Yet,
I advocate a new cadre of thought leaders from among the liberty purists
in America. Aren't leaders leaders?

No.
A patriotic thought leader effects change by an entire paradigm shift.
This is not only voluntary, it is a synergy, sought and welcomed, in
this case, for freedom from our servants. The Leaders we reject in America
are those who do not ask, they take, and they back their takings with
force, officials force, marketing it all with a spin of so-called Leadership.
See the difference? Even a dog knows the difference between being tripped
over and being kicked.

It
was this being kicked and this spit in the face of America that citizens
awoke to in 2008. 2009 may see a battle between the servants who think
they are leaders and the true thought leaders of sovereignty who point
the way to Independence from those servants.

These
I affectionately call the Liberty Nuts. These are people who write,
speak, post and podcast their knowledge of liberty and sovereign authority
as supreme in this country, and who are castigated by critics as Nuts
for their insight and warnings. But now their warnings are coming true
as in 2007 and 2008, and the frightening experience of 2008 - the shock
of 2008 - had been the awakening that we are on our own and that our
sovereignty is being defied outside due process and law.

For
four years, I have called my colleagues liberty nuts to mock the critics
and disable their slurs on one ground: America might have believed that
the Preparedness Nuts, the Constitution Nuts, the Gun Nuts were only
eccentric complainers, but only so far as the electorate believed that
the government would protect them better and that there would never
be much need for such
watchdogs and their so-called paranoia. As if the experience of Hurricane
Katrina weren't the wake up call it should have been, tens of millions
in 2008 have come to realize a sense of baffling events and an abandonment
that government will certainly not take care of them nor even look out
for them, and that the purists aren't so nutty after all. It seems that,
one by one, the warnings of these Liberty Nuts are coming true.

How
do we reach the electorate to show them the way back home again, Independence
from our own servants? Officials won't do it. Media pundits can devote
only a few hours a day, and I think we all understand that their audiences
are made up of patriots who comprehend the message, but with one limitation:
the pundits are preaching to the choir. How do you rouse the electorate,
the only true authority in this country? How do you create a more-than-grassroots
retaking of our Independence?

Simple:
you send out the choir itself to sing the song of Independence, sharing
their knowledge on hundreds of issues the giant pundits cannot address.

Platforming
is a most effective tool for corporations, authors and now for Liberty
Nuts. There are thousands of liberty purists out there who can platform
their knowledge of Independence to edify millions of others on everything
from civics to due process to liberty truths in a whole new content,
people who are not platforming now. If you know anything about our sovereign
authority, you could be pointing the way to independence from our own
servants.

There
is no problem anywhere in the world that cannot be solved in Liberty
better than under any other system. Certainly, this is true in America.
The predicament has been that our problems are a direct result of obfuscating
our sovereign authority and liberty, not invoking it. Too many Americans
simply do not know what to do about it. Knowledge of our sovereignty
almost skipped a generation and we continue to lose ground with the
best of pundits.

Contrast
Media Press has launched my new e-book on how liberty purists can platform
to invigorate the electorate by the thousands. Many colleagues may find
the content illuminating, I hope. Liberty purists who never thought
of platforming are now summoned to a new duty they may never have thought
necessary. It's necessary to invigorate the electorate.

It
could all be very interesting, this retaking of our Independence from
our own servants. Liberty in America is still a concept some in this
country have never known. Most of us will probably live and die in freedom,
and no one in this country needs Independence protected more than every
next
generation, and Independence for our kids will be decided here and now,
or not.

Could
you pass the word?

Creating
Your Own Liberty Platform - Calling All Liberty Nuts As The New Thought
Leaders To Regain Our Independence is available publisher-direct at
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John
Longenecker is Publisher of CONTRAST MEDIA PRESS, liberty books for corporate
social responsibility expressed in terms of American Liberty. Social Responsibility
need not be only Green – it can be Red, White and Blue. Go to www.ContrastMediaPress.com

Howard Nemerov is author of Gun Control: Fear
or Fact? Why I Changed My Mind On Gun Control. He writes for Texas State
Rifle Association’s TSRA Sportsman and is a frequent on-air guest
as “unofficial” investigative analyst for NRA News. He can
be reached at HNemerov@Netvista.net.